noun · feminine
hesperas
Strong’sG2073
evening
stem hesper-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἑσπέρα, -ας, ἡ
(prop, fem, of ἕσπερος), [in LXX chiefly for צֶרֶב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2073 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhes-per'-ah
Fromfeminine of an adjective hesperos (evening); the eve (G5610 being implied)
King Jamesevening(-tide).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect ἑσπ-έρη, ἡ, properly feminine of ἕσπερος:
I (i.e. ὥρα), evening, ἑσπέρας at eve, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ ἑσπέρας εὐθύς just at nightfall, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς ἑσπέραν towards evening, NT+5th c.BC+; ἐπειδὴ ἑσπέρα ἦνRefs 5th c.BC+; περὶ ἑσπέραν βαθεῖαν late in the evening, Refs 1st c.AD+ life is wearing to its eve, Refs 4th c.BC+ evenings when the moon is full, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 night, μίαν ἑ. αὐλισάμενος Refs 1st c.AD+
II (i.e. χώρα) the west, πρὸς ἑσπέραν φέρει Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ πνεύματα πνεῖ τῆς δείλης ἀπὸ τῆς ἑ. Refs 4th c.BC+: metaphorically in political sense, τὰ προφαινόμενα ἀπὸ τῆς ἑ. νέφη Refs 2nd c.BC+ the Western Empire, Refs 6th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hesperas1×ἑσπέρα | hesperais |
| object accusative | hesperan1×ἑσπέραν | hesperain |
| direct address vocative | hesperar | hesperair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hesperau1×ἑσπέρας | hesperaiu |
| to, for dative | hespera | hesperai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hespera is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
hesperas“evening”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 4:3… tērēsian eis tan aurion, ate gar hesperas ēdē.… and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until …
hesperan“evening”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 24:29… legarōntois; Menasar meta nu, hoti pros hesperan atō kai klinatē ēdē tas hēmeras. …… with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over …
hesperau“evening”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 28:23… kai toiu profētoiu apo prōi heōs hesperau.… expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God …